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Thank you all for the great advice! I've done the best I could for this
shoot with the equipment that I have at the moment, and the customer is happy. Your comments will help me with future work, and they give me some idea of what equipment I'm going to need to make things work better in the future. -- Petros Ap' ola prin ipirche o Logos |
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On Friday 08 October 2004 01:32, Petros wrote:
Stefan Patric posted: On Thursday 07 October 2004 03:01, Petros wrote: I'm doing some photos of wallets and purses that primarily will be viewed in an online catalog, but may also be used in print. The lighter colored leather seems to coming out OK, but the brown and black leather is coming out like a solid dark blotch. Is there some trick to lighting this that won't cause tons of glare off of the leather while bringing out the leather itself? you can take a look here http://petros.pl/Galleries/Sagan/index.html You've got a good, overall, general lighting set up. Now all you need to add is additional illumination from the extreme sides of the wallets and purses (They are called "kickers.") either by using small, narrowly focused lights or small white or silver reflectors to skim across the surface to delineate the texture of the leather and highlight the edges. You will probably still need to digitally retouch the images some in post to get the most out of the shots, but there should be no need to adjust contrast, white point, black point, etc., if you've lit the subject properly. Thank you for the ideas. I'll try to see if I can get a hold of some more lights. If you saw the way I lit this, you'd laugh I only have the shoe mounted flash (EF-500 DG Super), so I had to get creative with reflecting my light. I hung a cork bulletin board over my workspace and from the left side I hung a large piece of white paper. I set up a couple of pieces of A3 paper to the right to reflect back onto the wallets. I aimed the flash up towards the joint between the cork board and paper with the flash's diffuser. The cork color warmed the overall tone enough to be pleasing, so I didn't cover the cork with paper. At that point it was just a question of experimenting with exposure times. Before getting more lights, see if small (not much bigger than the product) silver or white reflectors will do the job. And, consider this: photographers lit still lifes and products with hot lights long before electronic flash was available. Usually, when learning to light products and small sets, it is better to use hot lights than strobes. With hot lights you can see what the lighting effects are better than with strobes, even if they have modeling lights. Remember, it's not how much you've got that's important, it's what you can do with what you have. -- Stefan Patric |
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Build a tent....flash from outside the tent. They make a spray that matts a
finish....if it doesn't harm the leather it might be a good idea. Look into Grey Component Removal...GCR. Browns are nasty as they have lots of all the CMYK....so lessen the CMY and replace with K for a cleaner print. |
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Gene Palmiter posted:
Build a tent....flash from outside the tent. They make a spray that matts a finish....if it doesn't harm the leather it might be a good idea. Look into Grey Component Removal...GCR. Browns are nasty as they have lots of all the CMYK....so lessen the CMY and replace with K for a cleaner print. Thanks Gene. I finished this some time ago and the client was very happy. I won't be doing the seps for it, so I have no idea what profile they'll use, but I'll remember for my own work. I'll also look into building myself a tent. Good advice! -- Petros Ap' ola prin ipirche o Logos |
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